Bill Maher wants Eric Cantor fight on the left

Liberal comic Bill Maher said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s loss Tuesday would never happen to a Democrat— although he wishes it would.

“This could never happen on the left. I wish it could. I wish somebody would come along and say to [Massachusetts Sen.] Elizabeth Warren — who I happen to love — ‘You know what? You’re not left enough,’” Maher said Friday on his HBO program, “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

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MSNBC’s Krystal Ball, a guest on the show, suggested the same could be said to Hillary Clinton.

“An even better example,” Maher replied.

Maher called Cantor’s primary loss to Dave Brat a “political earthquake,” saying Cantor was the tea party’s biggest ally in Congress. The late-night host nevertheless hit the Republican for his conservative approach to government spending.

“Eric, if you’re watching: Don’t think of it as being thrown out on your ass, think of it as making big government dependents go out and get a job,” Maher joked.

He later joked, “Even Eric Cantor has to admit, if you spend your life cutting programs that help children, you deserve to get beaten by a guy named Brat.”